Save the soul of beirut we visit the historic neighborhoods in the lebanese capital devastated by the port explosion. A National Strike in belarus is piling new pressure on president Alexander Lukashenko workers from state owned factories have walked off the job its just gone 11 am in the capital minsk and this was the scene at the state tractor factory than other protesters marching towards the compound where the president is expected to visit employees of the state Television Channel also on strike broadcasting an empty studio joined news bulletins that bastien is immense can joins us now on the phone so stephan extraordinary day of state companies strikes took us through what were seeing across the capital and the perhaps the country. Yes im here in front of Fitzgerald Lachance great care a real and to a very few thousands want to pass the cap and here they are asking us for strike also for auto work where operation conducted strike 2 choices 6 what its like i saw a large crowd of o
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A wave of criticism there. And with south africa in the middle of a 3 week lockdown we hear from a johannesburg resident about how people are cared. About Peter Simmons with the sport of argentina instructed carlos tevez has cooled and his father football is to open up their wallets and help during the current coronavirus crisis. Now the economic devastation caused by the current of our us outbreak is becoming clear what the United States once again announcing skyrocketing rates of unemployment a record 6600000. 00 people have now applied for Unemployment Benefits thats 3000000 more than last week its a similar story in spain strict quarantine measures that have now led to 800000 jobs being lost in march 3 point 5000000 people are now without work and the race of people applying for benefits in the United Kingdom is 10 times the normal almost a 1000000 people have claimed universal credit in the past 2 weeks despite a stimulus thats meant to prevent layoffs. Welcome to how katrines us
Up on line as the people are at home and becoming very creative and i want to look at this these 2 little sets of money printing go. And theyre quite interesting as you can see here is this one guy printed page a picture of pretend its face is turning red hes going red hes pointing predicting fast and then we have this other one here of a whole bunch of central bankers printing money so that seems to be their solution from the at least the neo liberal elite the keynesian sort of old school ivory tower economic thinking elite is money printing is going to solve all these pandemic problems now its like the child of ron paul and a lot of ways because you started talking about the problems associated with money printing in the Federal Reserve 2025 years ago during the 2008 crisis people started to more aware of this when big question came around suddenly a whole new generation started to understand the connection between money printing and the said and economic weakness and now i think its